Edison Memorial House Honors Wizard of Menlo Park
The Edison home in Milan Ohio reflects the inventor’s life as a family center and teaching presence. Madeleine Sloane recalls his walks, moon eclipses, and nightly quizzes, while artifacts like a phonograph and talking doll display his tinkering. She aims to dispel myths surrounding Thomas Alva Edison.
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New York University
Ohio
Samuel Edison
Thomas Alva
Sloane
Edison
Madeleine
Father
Madeline Sloane
Thomas Alva Edison
Mrs. Sloane
Menlo’ Park
Milas
Edison’s Birthplace Museum Goes Year Round Exhibit
The Ohio museum that opens in summer now operates year round with Edison family furniture on display. Artifacts include Edison’s cape cane and derby hat. Mrs. Sloane preserves a hidden Edison switch behind the kitchen clock for potential use, a private project now run by the Birthplace Association Ips.
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Ohio Museum
Judge orders SSA to reevaluate over crochet remark
Clem Jackson, an African American laborer, appealed after disability benefits were denied citing obesity arthritis and hypertension. A federal judge, Leslie Carr, criticized a doctor's remark that Jackson could crochet and knit saying it seemed ironic and ridiculous.
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Chattanooga
Clem Jackson
Social Security Administration
U.S
Leslie Carr
Jackson
Kangaroos of Australia Link to Ancient Mammal Lineage
The kangaroos of Australia are part of one of the oldest mammal families. Their ancestors lived alongside the dinosaurs, illustrating a deep evolutionary history of marsupials in the region.
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Australia
Tito Welcomes Big 2 Talks but Issues Warning
Belgrade Yugoslavia AP Tito welcomed Kennedy Khrushchev talks that should have occurred earlier and were proposed at the last U N General Assembly He warned uncommitted countries will not let big powers decide world issues alone stating we will not permit humanity s fate to be tailored by a few persons.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
U.N .General Assembly
Mrs Myers Beats Son Out Of School For Graduation
In Fort Scott Kansas a year-old Mrs Stanley Myers mother of five school age sons resumes schooling by correspondence to finish in 1943. She extends her effort by beating her eldest son Don out of school by one year to catch up.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Stanley Myers
Alcoholism Spread Not Inherited Says AMA Leader
Dr Marvin A Block of the American Medical Association warns alcoholism is communicable rather than hereditary. He notes about 50 percent of alcoholics have alcoholic parents and says family tension from alcoholism can drive children to drink later in life.
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Buffalo, N.Y
Marvin A. Block
American Medical Association
Sarah Churchill Fined for Drunken Disorder in Brighton Pub
Actress Sarah Churchill was fined 5.60 pounds for being drunk and disorderly in a Brighton pub. The charge marks a repeated offense noted in local reports over two years.
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Sarah Churchill
Brighton
England
Four yolks found in single egg shocks Brighton resident
Bright on New York AP reports Flor Eng four yolks in one egg. She says she has seen hundreds of double yolkers and several triple yolks but never a four yolk egg.
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Brighton
N.Y
Floreng
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